Tool-head-securing means



Patented eh. l3,

LEO J. KREIPEL, OF BALTITVIORE, IEARYLAND.

TOOL-HEAD-SIEOUBING MEANS.

Application filed August 3, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lno J. Knnirnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Tool-Head-Securing Means; and i do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of-the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient means for securing the heads of tools such as hammers hatchets, axes and the like to their handles without resorting to the usual expedient of splitting and driving wedges in the outer end of the handle or in the extremity of the handle at the outer side of the tool head and which latter practice is objectionable because it serves to weaken the handle and in the event of the breakage thereof renders the removal of the remaining portion of the handle from the head a matter of considerable difficulty and loss of time if not injury to the tool head; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction, combination and relation of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing wherein:

Figure l is a side view of a hammer having its head secured to the handle by means embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the same.

Figure 3 is a detail view of the holding disk detached.

Figure 4. is a side view of a hatchet having its head secured to its handle by'means embodying the invention.

While the securing means is only illustrated in connection with a hammer and hatchet, it is to be understood that it may be employed in connection with a variety of other tools. In Figures 1 and 2, 10 indicates the head and 12 the handle of the hammer, and in Figure 4, 10 indicates the head and 12 the handle of the hatchet.

The head of the tool in connection with which the device is used is provided with the usual socket 11 for the reception of the Serial No. 489,503.

reduced extremity of the handle, and in addition is provided in the side with an open ing 18 for the reception. of a disk 141- of brass or any other metal adapted to fit snugly therein and secured in place by a retainer consisting in the construction illustrated of a screw 15 which is threaded into the handle, the head of the screw being counter-sunk in the disk and the latter being;- flush at its outer surface with the side surface of the head.

The shrinkage of the handle does not affeet the holding property of the device described and does not involve any tendency of the head to fly from the handle as so fre quently happens when the head is secured by spreading the end of the handle by means of wedges which owing to the shrinkage of the material become loosened and frequently drop out of place. The disk being of considerable area and being seated in the body of the tool head cannot become displaced and a comparatively light screw is suiiicient to hold it in position so that the strength of the handle is not affected thereby. ii fore over, should the handle become broken it is possible to replace the same immediately for the reason that the portion of the handle remaining in the head can be displaced merely by removing the screw held disk and without resorting as frequently happens in the ordinary practice to the burningout of the portion of the handle to the injury of the tool head by removing the temper thereof.

VVhilethe preferred embodiment of this invention is shown and described it will be understood that minor changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts may be resorted to within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having: thus described the invention, what I claim is The combination with a hammer head having a handle receiving openingtherein and a transverse opening provic ed with smooth walls communicating with the handle receiving opening, a disk freely slidahle in said transverse opening, and a screw passing through said disk'and connecting the same to said handle, said screw being counter sunk in said disk and said disk having the entire surface of one of its ends in contact with the handle whereby said disk may move through the ppening as the handle contracts.

In testimeny whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

I LEO J. KREIPEL. Witnesses:

MINNIE C. KLASMEIER, A. T. AMSPACHER. 

